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The Incredible Journey of A Poor Boy From Kolkata to a Starring Role In Buckingham Palace !!!!

July 28, 2013Natarajan1 Comment

He began life in a slum apartment in the backstreets of Calcutta, yet rose to become the Royal footman who announced Prince George’s birth to an expectant nation.

To the cheers of thousands of people standing patiently outside Buckingham Palace, it was Badar Azim who strode proudly across the courtyard with the Queen’s Press Secretary Ailsa Anderson to mount the official acknowledgement of the baby’s safe arrival on an ornate easel.

Resplendent in his scarlet and black footman’s outfit, the uniform gave no clue to his humble background.

Moment of glory: Footman Badar Azim with the Queen’s Press Secretary Ailsa Anderson holding the announcement of Prince George’s birth

It is hard to imagine a prouder moment for a young man who has worked his way up from one of the most poverty-stricken corners of the world.

It was a mere twist of fate that Badar, 25, happened to be on duty at the Privy Purse door after the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to the third in line to the Throne.

But this simple coincidence seems fitting in a 21st Century fairytale that has delighted his impoverished family in India.

Badar’s father Mohammed Rahim, a 52-year-old welder who earns £33 a month, and his mother Mumtaz Begum, 41, still live in the same slum dwelling in a rundown area of Calcutta where Badar spent his childhood. They are overwhelmed to be thrown into the spotlight thanks to their son’s success.

But according to the footman’s brother Mazhar, 20, who spoke to him after his starring role in delivering the news of the Royal birth, Badar himself has taken the whole experience in his stride.

Joyous occasion: Badar Azim, right, enjoyed a proud moment announcing the birth on Monday

‘He acted very normal about it but it was a proud moment for him,’ said Mazhar. ‘My parents are so proud. They knew nothing about the British Royal Family before he got the job. They were really surprised.

‘We did not know about any of it beforehand. We only read about it in the newspapers. My parents think Badar is blessed.’

Standing in their dank, two-room home, which is shared between nine members of their extended family including Badar’s other brother, 14-year-old Md Sameer, the footman’s mother added: ‘I am feeling on top of the world.’

To give you an idea of just how far Badar has travelled in his 25 years, just getting inside his family home requires negotiating several water-logged flights of stairs.

A bed dominates the shabby main room. In terms of other material assets, all the family own is a television and a couple of plastic chairs.

But although Badar’s father was barely able to afford to put food on the table, he valued the importance of education and scrimped and saved to send Badar to school.

‘We were an economically challenged family,’ said Mazhar quietly. ‘Our parents let us boys sleep on the bed and they slept on the floor. But my father wanted us to go to a good school so that we could learn.

‘He even borrowed money so that we could go forward.’

After struggling at a public school in the city, Badar was taken in by the charitable St Mary’s Orphanage and Day School.

Run by the Congregation of Christian Brothers of Ireland, it aims to help the destitute, homeless and underprivileged. Badar thrived in his new environment.

‘He is a funny guy and very creative,’ added Mazhar. ‘He used to play sports a lot. He was very enthusiastic but also serious about his studies.’

Escape route: St Mary’s Orphanage Day School in Calcutta which Badar Azim attended before moving to the UK

The orphanage later sponsored Badar to go to the International Institute of Hotel Management College in Calcutta, where he embarked on a degree in hospitality management.

Sanjukta Bose, the director of the college, recalls an eager and diligent student. ‘He was a decent boy who never created any problems,’ she said.

‘He was well-mannered and a good communicator. He was also punctual, well-groomed and decent, which is essential for roles in hotel management.’

After completing his first two years at the Institute, the orphanage raised another £10,000 to fly Badar to Scotland, where he completed his degree at Edinburgh’s Napier University.

He lived in digs in the Scottish capital, where he cooked his own curries because he could not get used to British cuisine. During his final year at Napier, Badar organised a ten-mile charity walk to raise money for the orphanage’s sponsorship scheme.

He graduated on June 15, 2011, and landed a job as a junior footman at Buckingham Palace in February the following year.

‘The conditions I live in now are so different from how I lived in India,’ he said.

‘The orphanage literally helps transform the lives of hundreds of children each year. The charity enabled me to come to Edinburgh and complete my studies – something others in India can only dream of.

Humble begginngs: Azim, pictured in the yellow t-shirt, with his old classmates

‘If I hadn’t gone to St Mary’s, I would be working somewhere on the streets of Calcutta. It would have been very difficult to get a job in India because unless you have a good degree, you will not get a good job and a good salary.’

Pauline Gordon, a lecturer at Edinburgh’s Napier University, who leads the India Partnership – a scheme to bring disadvantaged children from the subcontinent to Britain – said: ‘Badar is the sweetest of boys I have met.

‘He’s particularly shy, quite reserved and old-fashioned. He’s also humble, polite and gracious.

‘He used to call me Ma’am but I told him to call me Pauline so now he calls me Pauline Ma’am – and I am only his teacher!

‘I got the shock of my life seeing him on television. I am so proud of him. He has done extremely well.

‘It took him a good few months to get the job at the Palace – he had a first interview and then the staff had to check out his credentials in India.

‘But he loves working at Buckingham Palace. He has been there for 18 months and has met the Queen.

‘At the moment he’s trying to extend his visa to stay in the country.

‘It runs out in October so he is trying to get the paperwork together and sort it out.

source:::::mailonline.com UK

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Message For The Day….It is The Inner Charm and Harmony That Really Matters !!!

July 27, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

Have faith in the Lord or the Divine Spark within you, it will vitalize you. Some people bargain with God, they promise to give Him costly articles or their own hair if a certain illness is cured or a certain calamity is averted. Lord Venkateshwara or any other form of the Lord does not need your hair. Shaving off your hair indicates that you have lost the delusion that physical beauty alone counts. You take the effort to make yourself wilfully ugly and demonstrate that it is inner charm and harmony that really matters. The hero is he who does not beg or cringe or flatter or fawn. He knows that the Lord knows best. If it is His will, He will grant food and raiment; if not, let His will prevail. That is the path of absolute surrender.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day…Listen to Your Conscience For Walking On The Right Path !!!

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Illusion (maya) envelops the good with the blemish of the bad. It makes evil glitter with the shine of the good. Discriminate to the best of your capacity and develop your capacity to discriminate. Struggle to win, that is the best that you can do. Your conscience knows well the source of joy and happiness. It will prod you towards the right path. You must take it as your guide and not disobey it, every time it contradicts your whim or fancy. There is no need for you to retire into a forest or a cave to know your inner Truth and to conquer your lower nature. As a matter of fact, you have no choice to exercise your vices there, so the victory achieved there may not be genuine or lasting. Be in the world, yet away from its tentacles. This is the victory for which you deserve congratulations.

Sathya Sai Baba

” Magic Farming “…Magical Touch Of a Single Man in Transforming his Village !!!!

July 25, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

Shreekant Kushwaha says his only mission in life is to promote organic farming

A farmer in the northern Indian state of Bihar is using magic shows to promote organic farming, Amarnath Tewary reports from Govindpur village in Muzaffarpur district.

Shreekant Kushwaha, in his late 40s, is a farmer who is a trained magician and has been using his skills to convince farmers in the state to convert to organic farming methods.

In the last few years, he has conducted more than 1,000 magic shows and converted thousands of farmers to organic farming to “increase both their yield and incomes”.

“Magic and farming are both science and need use of hands for their execution. Both become obsolete if denied new tricks,” he says.

Most of his magic shows begin with some popular trick like making a small ball vanish into air, or pulling a pigeon out of a hat.

“Once I’ve grabbed the attention of the crowd, I go for the real thing,” he says.

“I show them two boxes and tell them that one box has seeds with organic fertiliser while the other has seeds with synthetic fertiliser. Then I put a lid over both the boxes and say let’s see which grows faster.

“When the lid is lifted, the seeds treated with organic fertiliser seem to have grown into small plants but those treated with synthetic fertiliser have not grown at all,” he says.

“And then I explain why and how it is done.”

Fortunes changed

He says most among the audience return home convinced that organic is the way to go.

Mr Kushwaha himself learnt the benefits of organic farming in 2001 from a training camp held in his village by a non-governmental organisation.

Mr Kushwaha says moving to organic farming changed his fortunes

He says moving to organic farming changed his fortunes: he grows rice, wheat and more recently, medicinal plants on his farm and yields are high.

Once a poor farmer who could not even afford two daily meals for his family, he now owns a double-storey house, has a beautiful kitchen garden with decorative lights and flowers, a cow, a colour television, a computer and printer and a motorbike.

“I couldn’t go to school, but I sent my children to school for a proper education,” he says.

“It was all made possible once I started organic farming on my two-acre plot of agricultural land,” he says.

“And, now my only mission in life is to promote organic farming.”

The idea to promote organic farming with magic shows came to him in 2003 when “at a village agriculture fair I saw a magician pulling in the crowds for his shows and keeping them interested for well over an hour with his tricks”.

“But when I approached the magician, he refused to teach me any tricks.”

‘Magic spell’

Mr Kushwaha did not lose hope and went to meet Ram Ratan Sharma, a famous magician in his area.

While he farmed his land during the day, he learnt magic at night, picking up more than 500 tricks in two years.

“The villagers and even my own family members said I was mad but I kept on,” he says.

In 2005, Mr Kushwaha conducted over two dozen magic shows in his village to convince farmers of the benefits of organic farming.

A year later, Govindpur – a village of 150 households with a population of over 1,200 – was declared the first organic village in the state by the Bihar government.

Soon, the government-run State Bank of India adopted the village to provide all facilities to the farmers as they moved to organic farming.

An unlettered farmer who could barely write his name in Hindi, Mr Kushwaha has now been felicitated by several institutions, politicians and local organisations for his “unique experiment of farming with magic”.

In the last few years, Mr Kushwaha has conducted more than 1,000 magic shows

Today, he gives tips to farmers on how to make organic fertiliser to increase the soil fertility and better their yield.

Farmers Shankar Ram and Rajdeo Singh are all praise for Mr Kushwaha who has done the village proud with his sheer “dedication and determination to convert all of us to organic farming”.

Says agriculture expert UK Sharma: “Mr Kushwaha has cast his magic spell on the farmers of the area.”

At present though, Mr Kushwaha is worried about the depleting number of cows and buffaloes in the village which, he says, may hamper the move towards organic farming. Cow dung and urine provide valuable fertiliser for organic farming.

“Cattle rearing has become quite expensive these days so many people are moving away from it and migrating from villages to find jobs in the cities,” he says. “But then, there is always a new trick in science and magic.”

source::::bbc.com

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அமெரிக்க வாழ் தமிழர் ஸ்ரீகாந்தின் தமிழ் பற்றும் பணியும் !!!!

July 24, 2013Natarajan1 Comment

கல்கி, உ.வே.சுவாமிநாதையர் ஆகியோரின் நூல்களை, முதியோரும், மாற்றுத்திறனாளிகளும் சிரமமின்றி கேட்கும் வண்ணம், அமெரிக்க வாழ் தமிழர், ஸ்ரீகாந்த், ஆடியோ புத்தகங்களை உருவாக்கி வருகிறார்.

சென்னையில் பிறந்து வளர்ந்த, ஸ்ரீகாந்த், 20 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன், அமெரிக்காவில் குடியேறினார். அங்கு, மென்பொருள் துறையில், திட்ட மேலாளராக வேலை பார்த்தபடி, தமிழ் மன்றத்தை நிறுவிய ஸ்ரீகாந்த், அதன் மூலம், தமிழ் தொடர்பான, பணிகளில் ஈடுபட்டு வருகிறார். குறிப்பாக, குழந்தைகளுக்கான இசை, கவிதை, பேச்சு, நாடகங்கள் போன்றவற்றை அரங்கேற்றி வருகிறார்.தற்போது, சான்பிரான்சிஸ்கோ பாரதி தமிழ் மன்றத்தின் தலைவராக பணிபுரிந்து வருகிறார். அங்கு உள்ள, ஸ்டான் போர்டு பல்கலை கழக வானொலியில், மூன்று மணி நேரம், தமிழ் சேவைக்காக ஒதுக்கப்படுகிறது. அதில், பாடல், நேர்காணல், நாடகம் என, பலவற்றை ஒலிபரப்பி வருகிறார். அவருடைய பணிகளில் முக்கியமானது, நாவல்களை, ஆடியோ புத்தகமாக தயாரிப்பது.கல்கியின், “பொன்னியின் செல்வன், சிவகாமியின் சபதம், பார்த்திபன் கனவு’ ஆகிய நாவல்களை, ஆடியோ புத்தகமாக வெளியிட்டுள்ளார். மேலும், உ.வே.சா.,வின், “என் சரித்திரம்’ நூலை, ஆடியோ புத்தகமாக மாற்றும் பணிகளில் ஈடுபட்டு வருகிறார்.”ஆடியோ புத்தகம் எனில், செய்தி வாசிப்பது போல் இருக்கும்’ என்ற, பொதுவான விமர்சனங்களை தாண்டி, தனித்துவத்துடன் உருவாக்கி இருக்கிறார்.நாவலின் நடையில், காட்சி விவரிப்புக்கு ஒரு குரலையும், கதாபாத்திரங்கள் பேசுவதற்கு ஒரு குரலையும் பயன்படுத்தி உள்ளார். கல்கியின், “பொன்னியின் செல்வன்’ நூலில் வரும், 40க்கும் மேற்பட்ட கதாபாத்திரங்களை, தானே பேசி அசத்தியுள்ளார். இது, 75 மணி நேரமாக ஓடும் ஆடியோ புத்தகமாக உள்ளது.

இதுகுறித்து, ஸ்ரீகாந்த் கூறியதாவது: துவக்கத்தில் துபாயில், மென்பொருள் துறையில் வேலை பார்த்த நான், அடுத்த, மூன்று ஆண்டுகளில், அமெரிக்கா சென்றேன். அங்கு, ஆயிரக்கணக்கான தமிழ் குடும்பங்கள் இருந்தன. அவர்கள், பல்வேறு சிக்கல்களை எதிர்கொள்ள வேண்டி இருந்தது; குறிப்பாக, மொழி பிரச்னை அதிகமாக இருந்தது. அடுத்த தலைமுறையினர், ஆங்கிலத்திலேயே எழுதி, பேசுவதால், தமிழ் மொழி மறந்தே போகும் அபாயம் இருந்தது.எனவே, இங்குள்ளவர்கள் தமிழை மறக்காமல் இருக்க, என்னால் இயன்ற வகையில், பணியாற்றி வருகிறேன்.என் வேலை, மிகவும் பரபரப்பானது; மனதளவில் அழுத்தம் கொடுக்க கூடியது. இதில், போதுமான ஓய்வு கிடைப்பது, சாத்தியமில்லாதது. இருந்தாலும், எனக்கு கிடைக்கும் ஓய்வு நேரத்தில், அடுத்த தலைமுறையினருக்கு சென்று சேரும் வகையில், தமிழ் சேவை செய்வது, சுகமானது.இவ்வாறு, அவர் கூறினார்.

இவருடைய ஆடியோவை கேட்ட, மாற்றுத் திறனாளிகளும், முதியோரும், இவருடைய சேவையை பாராட்டி, நேரிலும், மின்னஞ்சல் மூலமாகவும், பாராட்டி வருகின்றனர். அவருடைய இணைய முகவரி: http://www.tamilaudiobooks.com

source:::::Dinamalar .com

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Message For The Day….Take The World as It Is ….

July 23, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

Why are you put-off when you see wrong? Why are you provoked to react or respond when you see evil? Remember, evil has in it the potential to become good and good has in it the liability to turn evil! There is no fire without a wisp of smoke; there is no smoke, without a spark of fire. No one is fully wicked, fully infallible or fully perfect. Take the world as it is, never expect it to conform to your needs or standards. The treasure that is undoubtedly the most precious in the universe is the quality of equanimity and unruffled-ness (shantham). Practise this and make it your natural reaction. The Goddess of Victory smiles only on the heroic, those who make lions of themselves; those resilient, brave and self-confident warriors. If you secure the Grace of the Lord, then you will be reinforced with so much strength, that you can carry out even the most difficult tasks.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….” Do Good To Others -Avoid Doing Harm ” !!!

July 22, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

This holy full moon day is called Vyaasa Poornima, and must be celebrated with prayer and contrition which alone can cleanse the heart, and not by feasting or fasting, which affects only the body. Today the moon shines bright, cool and full, without any hindrance. The mind of a human is compared to the moon, for it is as wayward as the moon with its swing from brightness to darkness. Your mind must be bright, effulgent and cool always. Two statements give you the gist of all the eighteen Puranas composed by sage Vyaasa. “Do good to others; avoid doing harm”. These are the cure for the disease of suffering from joy and grief, honour and dishonour, prosperity and adversity, and all the dual throng that bother you and deprive you of equanimity. Follow the path shown by your Guru. Even Vyaasa can only show you the road. You have to traverse it alone.

Sathya Sai Baba

Ambassador Car Ranked No 1 Taxi in The World !!!!

July 22, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

It may have lost out to the more modern competitors from Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Toyota and Honda but the good old Ambassador car, which once ruled the roost in India, has just been voted as the world’s best taxi by global automotive programme Top Gear.

In a show, which is being aired on the BBC, Top Gear’s executive director Richard Hammond organised a world taxi shootout in which Ambassador emerged a winner, beating competitors from all over the globe.

“The winner was India’s virtually indestructible Hindustan Ambassador,” UK-based motor museum Beaulieu, where the ‘World of Top Gear’ featuring vehicles from some of the most ambitious challenges are also showcased, said in a statement.

This particular example proved just how enduring the Ambassador really is when it saw off rivals from Britain, America, Germany, South Africa, Mexico and Russia to be named the world’s best taxi, it added.

The Hindustan Ambassador started life in Britain as the Morris Oxford but, with a quick name change, it went on to become one of India’s most enduring vehicles.

“It’s (Ambassador) so tough that, although it now lives in World of Top Gear, with a quick wash and brush up, it could be back in service tomorrow – probably,” the statement said.

In 1948, CK Birla Group firm Hindustan Motors Ltd began the production of the Ambassador at Uttarpara in Hooghly district, West Bengal.

Till the arrival of the Maruti in the early 80s, the Ambassador was the status symbol in India. Gradually it lost out to various global competitors when it came to personal usage but continued to be the favourite vehicle for government officials and also in the taxi segment.

In the recent past, its sales in both the segments have shown a decline and in 2012-13, the Ambassador sold a total of just 3,390 units. This fiscal, it has sold only 709 units in the April-June period.

Ambassador ranked the world's best taxi

source::::PTI in NDTV .COM ….based on TOP GEAR OF BBC

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சாணக்ய சிந்தனைகள் …நினைவில் நிற்கும் பொன்மொழிகள் !!!

July 21, 2013July 21, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

சாணக்ய சிந்தனைகள்….

குருடர்களுக்கு கண்ணாடி எவ்வளவு பயனுள்ளதோ அவ்வளவு பயனுள்ளதே முட்டாள்களுக்கு புத்தகங்கள்

கல்வியே சிறந்த நண்பன். கல்விமான்களுக்கு செல்லுமிடமெல்லாம் சிறப்பு. கல்வி அழகையும், இளமையையும் விஞ்சி விடும்.

பிறர் செய்யும் தவறுகளிலிருந்து பாடம் கற்றுக் கொள்ளுங்கள், ஏனெனில் நீங்களாகவே பட்டு உணர்ந்து பாடம் கற்கவேண்டுமெனில் இந்த ஆயுள் போதாது.

ஒருவர் மிகவும் நேர்மையாக இருக்கக்கூடாது. நேர் நிமிர்ந்த மரமே முதலில் வெட்டிச் சாய்க்கப்படுகிறது. நேர்மையான மனிதனே அதிக சோதனைகளை எதிர்கொள்கிறான்.

பாம்புகள் கூட விஷமில்லாமல் இருக்கலாம், ஆனால் விஷம் இருப்பதாக பாசாங்கு செய்வது அவசியம்.

ஒவ்வொரு நட்புறவிலும் கொஞ்சம் சுயநலம் உள்ளது. சுயநலமற்ற நட்புறவு இல்லவேயில்லை. இதுதான் கசப்பான உண்மை!

எந்த ஒரு வேலையைத் தொடங்குவதாக இருந்தாலும் முதலில் உங்களிடம் நீங்களே 3 கேள்விகளை கேட்கவேண்டும்: நான் ஏன் இதனைச் செய்யவேண்டும், முடிவுகள் என்னவாகவிருக்கும், நான் இதில் வெற்றி பெறுவேனா? இந்தக்கேள்விகளை ஆழமாகச் சிந்திக்கும்போதுதான் திருப்திகரமான விடைகள் கிடைக்கும். முயற்சி செய்யுங்களேன்.

பயம் உங்களை நெருங்கும்போது அதனை தாக்கி அழியுங்கள்!

உலகின் ஆகப்பெரிய சக்தி இளமையும் பெண்ணின் அழகும்தான்!

ஒரு வேலையத் துவங்கிவிட்டீர்களென்றால் அதன் விளைவுகள் பற்றி அச்சப்படக்கூடாது. கைவிடாதீர்கள்! நேர்மையாக பணியாற்றுபவர்கள் மகிழ்ச்சியானவர்கள்.

மலரின் மணம் காற்றின் திசைவழி மட்டுமே செல்லும், ஒரு நல்ல மனிதனின் நற்தன்மை அனைத்து திசைகளுக்கும் செல்லும்.

விக்கிரகங்களில் கடவுள் இல்லை. உங்கள் உணர்வுகளே உங்கள் கடவுள். ஆன்மாவே கோயில்.

மனிதன் செயலினால் உயர்ந்தவனே தவிர பிறப்பினால் அல்ல.

உங்களை விட தகுதியில் உயர்ந்தவர்களிடமோ, தாழ்ந்தவர்களிடமோ நட்பு பாராட்டாதீர்கள், இந்த நட்பினால் மகிழ்ச்சி ஏற்படாது.

முதல் 5 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு உங்கள் குழந்தைகளை அன்புடன் நடத்துங்கள். அதன் பிறகு கண்டியுங்கள், 16 வயது ஆகிவிட்டதா நண்பராக நடத்துங்கள், வளர்ந்த உங்களுடைய குழந்தைகளே உங்கள் சிறந்த நண்பர்கள்.

source::::input from a friend of mine…

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Think Differently !!!… See What China Is Doing !!!

July 21, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

It’s a difficult conundrum faced by many countries around the world – how to produce enough food for an ever-increasing population when land and space is rapidly running out.
But it appears China may have come up with an answer with its plans for space-saving vertical farms .Overcrowded China solves space shortage issues by building 187-metre-high vertical farms to grow fruit and veg.

They may look more like tower accommodation blocks usually found in big cities, but these 187-metre-high skyscrapers would only be used to grow vegetables and fruit.

The plans to build in the vertical farms in Tai Po, Hong Kong, come after the country’s rapid urban expansion in recent years which has seen much of its usable farmland disappear
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Despite still having one of the largest agricultural outputs – feeding 20 per cent of the world’s entire population, only 15 per cent of all its land is suitable for farming and only around 1.2 per cent permanently supports crops.

And with its cities expanding in size by ten per cent annually since 2000, its farmland is becoming increasingly under threat.

This coupled with the world’s ever-expanding population has led to fears of future face food shortages action isn’t taken soon

But Spain-based architectural firm JAPA believes its model could solve this problem with its Dyn-net or Dynamic Vertical Networks model.

This would be a series of high-rise towers located on the outskirts of cities that could supply the food needs of the metropolis.

The structures would be made out of lightweight yet high tensile materials using as many recyclable resources as possible.

The shifting floors of the structure, inspired by China’s traditional rice farms, means each ring of the building can change its position to best suit the plants, such as making them receive the maximum amount of sunlight or moisture.

The system would also use hydroponics to grow produce, using little to no soil at all, and would even have labs to better monitor growth and nutritional value of the crops.

Visitors would be allowed into the building so they can learn more about local agriculture and get to witness the 360 degree panoramic views each platform offers.

The buildings could put an end to China’s difficulty in finding enough arable land to farm, which has been a problem throughout its history, leading to chronic food shortage.

While the production efficiency of its farmland has grown over time, efforts to expand to the west and the north have held limited success because of the colder and drier climate than its traditional farmlands to the east.

Since the 1950s, China’s farm space has also been under pressure by the increasing land needs of industry and cities.

The company has suggested Tai Po District in Hong Kong which is the second largest administrative district and has a surrounding unused area of some 14,800 hectares in the northeast New Territories, as the idea site to test the farming skyscrapers.

The firm believes the structures would be able to feed the entire population of the surrounding Kowloon-Hong Kong area.

Because of China's limited space for farming, there are plans to create these vertical structures which provide food while saving land space

While the production efficiency of farmland has grown over time, efforts to expand to the west and the north have held limited success

Strategic rethink of the Asian City:

The farming towers will create more agricultural land by building upwards and using cutting-edge technology to grow as much produce as efficiently as possible

Not only will the towers provide food but also spectacular 360 degree viewing platforms and spaces to research on farming techniques

source::::SUZANNAH HILLS in mailonline .com UK

natarajan